"A strongman is a political leader who rules by force and runs an authoritarian regime or totalitarian regime. The term is often used interchangeably with "dictator" in the western world, but differs from a "warlord" and commonly lacks the negative connotations especially in some Eastern European and Central Asian countries."

And according ulit sa wikipedia, 3 daw ang na-tag as Strongman from the Philippines. They are Emilio Aguinaldo, Ferdinand Marcos & Rodrigo Duterte.

Yeah, his statement on this really made no sense as it was primarily his administration who would be able to use the ruling to our benefit.

The ironic thing is that ruling was going to be huge for our leverage, and he had all the tools to use diplomacy to ensure we were able to defend our rights.

His and his admin's logic and the logic of 'we will lose a war against China' is such a poor excuse. Of course we will lose, that's why our country went this route to begin with to go with the the Hague ruling. The way they used the Hague ruling and how they basically gave up our sovereignity is going to be remembered as one of this administration's biggest failings.

True. The Hague ruling was just as big for those other countries like Thailand and Vietnam as it was for us. We could have put the pressure on them, but alas, here we are. They have militarized those islands and our government is showing no signs of urgency to try to defebd our sovereignity.

Yung sa mga Teo, yup, basically nahuli sila and now it's just a matter of time to see if makakalusot sila, or papalusutin sila. But that's just some BS the way they're blatantly pulling this shiet off.

WTF are you going to put that kind of money for tourism ads on a show that not many potential tourists are watching anyway? Conflict of interest issue aside, it's just plain stupid too.